Day Sixty One on the Somme

Lieutenant H F Graves

Wednesday 30th August 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field

As 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment contemplates going into action near Guillemont sometime in the near future, the adjutant has contacted me with the names of new officers who have joined the battalion during August to take the places of those who have fallen in the fight. The officers are:

• Second Lieutenant E. A. Hague (joined on 14th August)
• Second Lieutenant P. A. Gibbons (joined on 14th August)
• Lieutenant H. F. Graves (joined on 15th August)
• Second Lieutenant H. C. Covell (joined on 15th August)
• Second Lieutenant  V. S. Sanders (joined on 16th August)(1)
• Second Lieutenant J. H. Banyard (joined on 18th August)(2)
• Second Lieutenant D. A. Lardner (joined on 18th August)
• Second Lieutenant H. J. Everett (joined on 18th August)
• Second Lieutenant A. J. Howard (joined on 27th August)(4)
• Second Lieutenant P. G. Smith (joined on 27th August)

Second Lieutenant Addison Howard

Sources: X550/2/5

(1) Vincent Stanton Sanders, from Hornsey [Middlesex], would be killed on 4th September, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

(2) James Hirst Banyard would be killed on 3rd September, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

(3) Dion Albert Lardner, from Streatham [London], would be killed on 4th September, he is commemorated in the Thiepval Memorial.

(4) Addison James Howard, from Kempston Grange, would be killed on 4th September and is buried at Guillemont Road Cemetery; Addison Howard Park in Kempston was given to the people of Kempston and dedicated to his memory by his mother in 1937, having formed the grounds of Kempston Grange.